Carlos Echeverri Cortés

Carlos Echeverri Cortés
Dr. Carlos Echeverri Cortes (left), recently appointed Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, pays a courtesy visit to U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie (right), at U.N. Headquarters.
Dr. Carlos Echeverri Cortes (left) with U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie (right), at U.N. Headquarters.
5th Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations
In office
August 1952 – 5 March 1953
President Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez
Preceded by Elíseo Arango Ramos
Succeeded by Evaristo Sourdis Juliao
27th Colombian Minister of Posts and Telegraphs
In office
29 August 1951 – 29 April 1952
President Laureano Gómez Castro
Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez
Preceded by José Tomás Angulo
Succeeded by Carlos Albornoz
6th Colombia Ambassador to Peru
In office
16 July 1947 – 16 November 1949
President Mariano Ospina Pérez
Succeeded by Eduardo Zuleta Ángel
Colombia Ambassador to Mexico
Personal details
Born 23 June 1900
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Died 14 March 1974 (aged 73)
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Nationality Colombian
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Gloria Rodríguez García
Alma mater University of London
Profession Economist
Religion Roman Catholic
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Echeverri and the second or maternal family name is Cortés.

Carlos Echeverri Cortés (23 June 1900 — 14 March 1974)[1][2] was a Colombian economist and diplomat who served as ad interim 5th Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, and as Ambassador of Colombia to Peru and Mexico.[3][4] During his ambassadorship in Peru he became an enemy of the administration of President Manuel Arturo Odría Amoretti for granting political asylum to the politician Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, an action that drove the Peruvian Government to mount a five-year struggle harassing embassy staff and personnel, and forming a military blockade around the Colombian Embassy where Haya was housed, this because Lima had refused to grant safe conduct for Haya to leave the country and Ambassador Echeverri refused to give him up.[5]

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  1. ↑ Restrepo Sáenz, José María; Restrepo Posada, José; Rivas, Raimundo (2000) [1991]. Genealogías de Santa Fe de Bogotá, Volume 6 [Genealogies of Santa Fe de Bogotá, Volume 6] (in Spanish). Bogotá: Editorial Presencia. OCLC 28546996.
  2. ↑ Obituaries. Revista javeriana: Volume 81, Issues 401-405 (Magazine) (in Spanish) (Bogotá: Imprenta del C. de Jesús). 1974. p. 325. ISSN 0120-3088. OCLC 1763965. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Memoria de Relaciones Exteriores [Memoirs of Foreign Affairs]. National Printing Office of Colombia. 1949. pp. 91–92. Retrieved 2010-12-23.
  4. ↑ Tirado Mejía, Alvaro; Londoño Paredes, Julio; Pardo García-Peña, Rodrigo (September 1995). "Colombia en las Naciones Unidas, 50 años de historia y participación" [Colombia in the United Nations, 50 years of history and participation]. Revista Credencial Historia (in Spanish) (Bogotá: Luís Ángel Arango Library) (69). ISSN 0121-3296. Retrieved 2010-12-23.
  5. ↑ Haya de la Torre, Víctor Raúl (1954-05-03). "My Five Year Exile In My Own Country". Life (Time Inc) 36 (18): 152–167. ISSN 0024-3019. Retrieved 2010-12-24.